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Sherwood L. Gorbach

Sherwood L. Gorbach

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Microbiology
USA
2025

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Microbiology

D-Index
123
Citations
59908
World Ranking
123
National Ranking
62

Medicine

D-Index
130
Citations
65187
World Ranking
2490
National Ranking
1405

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2007 - Alexander Fleming Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Overview

Sherwood L. Gorbach is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research contributions lie primarily within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers key topics including:

  • Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases
  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

Sherwood L. Gorbach has published multiple papers, with recent publications including:

  • "Pleural Empyema: Etiology and Pathogenesis" (2024) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "John Bartlett, In Memoriam" (2021) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Obituary of John Bartlett for Anaerobe" (2021) in Anaerobe

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gorbach include Daniel M. Musher and Joshua Fierer.

The venues where this scientist has most regularly published are:

  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Anaerobe

In 2007, Sherwood L. Gorbach received the Alexander Fleming Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: 2014 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Dennis L. Stevens;Alan L. Bisno;Henry F. Chambers;E. Patchen Dellinger

  • Diagnosis and management of complicated intra-abdominal infection in adults and children: guidelines by the Surgical Infection Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

    Joseph S. Solomkin;John E. Mazuski;John S. Bradley;Keith A. Rodvold

  • Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections

    Dennis L. Stevens;Alan L. Bisno;Henry F. Chambers;Henry F. Chambers;E. Dale Everett

  • Fidaxomicin versus Vancomycin for Clostridium difficile Infection

    Thomas J. Louie;Mark A. Miller;Kathleen M. Mullane;Karl Weiss

  • Antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis due to toxin-producing clostridia.

    John G. Bartlett;te Wen Chang;Marc Gurwith;Sherwood L. Gorbach

  • Executive Summary: Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: 2014 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Dennis L. Stevens;Alan L. Bisno;Henry F. Chambers;E. Patchen Dellinger

  • Intestinal flora in health and disease.

    Gary L. Simon;Gary L. Simon;Sherwood L. Gorbach;Sherwood L. Gorbach

  • Survival of Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Human Stomach and Adhesion to Intestinal Cells

    P.L. Conway;S.L. Gorbach;B.R. Goldin

  • Soybean phytoestrogen intake and cancer risk.

    C H Adlercreutz;B R Goldin;S L Gorbach;K A Höckerstedt

  • Fidaxomicin versus vancomycin for infection with Clostridium difficile in Europe, Canada, and the USA: a double-blind, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial

    Oliver A Cornely;Derrick W Crook;Roberto Esposito;André Poirier

  • Oral (n-3) Fatty Acid Supplementation Suppresses Cytokine Production and Lymphocyte Proliferation: Comparison between Young and Older Women

    Simin Nikbin Meydani;Stefan Endres;Margo M. Woods;Barry R. Goldin

  • Plasmid-controlled colonization factor associated with virulence in Esherichia coli enterotoxigenic for humans.

    D G Evans;R P Silver;D J Evans;D G Chase

  • Antimicrobial substance from a human Lactobacillus strain.

    M Silva;N V Jacobus;C Deneke;S L Gorbach

  • Guidelines for the Selection of Anti-infective Agents for Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections

    Joseph S. Solomkin;John E. Mazuski;Ellen J. Baron;Robert G. Sawyer

  • Survival of Lactobacillus species (strain GG) in human gastrointestinal tract.

    Barry R. Goldin;Sherwood L. Gorbach;Maija Saxelin;Susan Barakat

  • Lactic acid bacteria in health and disease.

    S. Salminen;M. Deighton;S. Gorbach

  • Estrogen Excretion Patterns and Plasma Levels in Vegetarian and Omnivorous Women

    Barry R. Goldin;Herman Adlercreutz;Sherwood L. Gorbach;James H. Warram

  • SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF RELAPSING CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE COLITIS WITH LACTOBACILLUS GG

    SherwoodL. Gorbach;Te-Wen Chang;Barry Goldin

  • Anaerobic infections. 1.

    S L Gorbach;J G Bartlett

  • The effect of milk and lactobacillus feeding on human intestinal bacterial enzyme activity.

    B R Goldin;S L Gorbach

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Bartlett
John G. Bartlett Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Donna Spiegelman
Donna Spiegelman Yale University
Andrew B. Onderdonk
Andrew B. Onderdonk Brigham and Women's Hospital
Johanna T. Dwyer
Johanna T. Dwyer Tufts University
Michael Barza
Michael Barza Tufts Medical Center
David R. Snydman
David R. Snydman Tufts Medical Center
Christine Wanke
Christine Wanke Tufts University
Derrick W. Crook
Derrick W. Crook University of Oxford
Ronenn Roubenoff
Ronenn Roubenoff Novartis (Switzerland)
Thomas J. Louie
Thomas J. Louie University of Calgary

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